Closed Sector - NL06-EN

Sectors represent the geographic area for which a call for bids will take place in the scheduled land tenure system. Sectors will be identified at the beginning of the scheduled land tenure process, such that industry will have a known call for bids area with a long lead schedule, allowing additional time for exploration assessment. A sector will be posted via a Sector Identification announcement. Sectors will be configured by the C-NLOPB, based upon the Area of Interest nominations received from industry and assessment of lands by the Exploration Department. The C-NLOPB has considered the appropriate size of potential sectors, given the goals and process of the scheduled land tenure system. The size of a sector will be approximately 2 million hectares (ha) or 20 000 km2 and therefore will accommodate roughly nine, 800 section exploration licences (ELs) (the maximum EL size offered by the C-NLOPB). As such, sectors will be large relative to exploration prospects, existing fields and exploration licences. They will be designed to allow for multiple play and prospect types over an extensive geographical area. Sector boundaries will be considered “flexible” for the purpose of parcel design; such that parcels can extend beyond the edge of a sector to properly contain geological features in the subsurface.区块（Sector）指在既定土地保有制度中开展招标活动的地理范围。区块将在既定土地保有流程启动之初完成划定，使行业主体可提前获知招标区域信息，预留充足时间开展勘探评估工作。区块将通过区块划定公告对外发布。区块由加拿大纽芬兰与拉布拉多省石油天然气委员会（C-NLOPB）依据行业提交的意向区域提名，以及勘探部门开展的土地评估结果进行配置。C-NLOPB结合既定土地保有制度的目标与流程，确定了潜在区块的合理规模。单个区块的面积约为200万公顷（ha）或2万平方千米，可容纳约9份标准800地块勘探许可证（EL）——这也是C-NLOPB提供的最大尺寸勘探许可证。相较于勘探靶区、现有油田及勘探许可证，区块的规模相对更大。区块的设计初衷是覆盖广袤地理区域内的多种成藏组合与勘探靶区类型。为开展地块设计，区块边界可视为“弹性边界”，即地块可超出区块范围，以完整包含地下地质特征。